U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marc Barreca has ordered Tim Eyman to sell his Mukilteo home as financial restitution for his outstanding $5.6 million in civil penalties over campaign finance law violations.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marc Barreca has ordered Tim Eyman to sell his Mukilteo home as financial restitution for his outstandingover a Thurston County Superior Court’s findings of Eyman’s campaign finance law violations.
In April of 2021, a Thurston County Superior Court found that Eyman repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign finance laws in an illegal kickback scheme involving depositing checks made out to his initiative committee into his personal checking account.The Thurston County judge ruled that Eyman intentionally concealed over $1,000,000 in various campaign contributions, failing to disclose them to the Public Disclosure Commission.
“Eyman will never take accountability for his actions because any acknowledgment of wrongdoing would undermine his attempts to pry additional dollars out of his supporters,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson wrote in a news release.
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